After years of research and hours of gruelling surgery, scientists have successfully attached sensors from a prosthetic hand to human nerve tissue to allow the device to give its wearer a sense of touch.
A prosthetic hand with a sense of touch Lucky Dane gets to feel balls again
"The sensory feedback was incredible," reported …

Why can I see

This tech being adopted by the military for their Talos project, or something similar. I mean sure having somebody in an ironman style suit is nice and all, but without a sense of touch the feedback is hard to grasp

(speaking from semi experience here of playing about with a mechanical glove picking up virtual objects at Reading Uni. You could see the object, you could see the virtual hand grasp them, you could feel the pressure being pushed back against the glove even. But with no sense of touch it was hard to keep hold of anything.)

I mean I'm not saying it'll be used exclusively for military uses. But I can easily see this being appropriated as such.

On the main subject of the article though. That is pretty damn amazing. And considering they had to implant electrodes into his arm, I'm surprised they didn't let him keep it for more long term testing. No idea how long those electrodes will last.

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And you do realise that most of the scientific institutions that do this kind of research would have their own blocks on those sorts of websites, and the effort involved in convincing management to allow grumble flicks through the filter means its quicker and easier to pop down to the local newsagent and pick up a handful of magazines instead.